Tom Boles' #153 supernova

Despite the rising full moon last night managed to get a shot of Tom Boles' new SN [his 153rd!] discovered on July 18 in Draco about 10 deg north of M13 in an annonomous gxy. I estimated from last night the SN was ~m17.0 in comparison to Sloan DSS and Tom this morning confirm that was about spot-on. The gxy is the abutting smudge and is ~ 400MLY away !

The SN has been designated type Ia @ z=0.033 = ~400MLY range but awaits a SN2013?? number - see Bright Supernova

I've known Tom for many years for his extraordinary SN work - he registered for me my SN2011az discovery